Left Brain ArtistsHoliday cards Choosing holiday cards is hardly much fun – often bought in a rush, spending time to find ‘blanks’ – can’t stand imprinted messages. No gift is complete without a personalized message. For me, they are best given with hand-made cards. Thoughts and good wishes wrapped in a labor of creating. I was beyond […]
Abstract mixed media Orange is electrifying. A piece of sun. Abstract painting is about exploring emotional and subconscious associations with shapes and color arrangements. What emotions are orange abstracts exciting in us? Joy, rage, optimism, energy, anxiety? Here is the experiment we made for this chapter. We painted an abstract painting in orange and asked […]
Still life, clay objects etc. The expectations for this theme of the project ‘Orange’ were 3D objects, functional or otherwise. Bowls, figurines, jewelry…Well, you cannot prescribe creativity. We ended up with contributions of still-life paintings, and artistic deserts. And a quintessential ‘orange car’! Spontaneously, the theme transformed itself into ‘orange’ in our lives…we are searching […]
Murals and Street Art This Pink Floyd’s song is a rebellion of my youth – I was an exemplary student of mathematics by the day and a member of a secretive avant-garde multi-media art group by the night. We did not do graffiti but did glue artistic posters on walls and lamp posts of cobblestone […]
Alcohol ink paintings Embarking on ‘Art Garden’ collaboration, we explored and studied actual living gardens as well as potential artistic concepts suited for the project. Last year we indulged in flowing and transparent nature of alcohol inks; in ‘Art Garden’ we celebrated intensity of their coloration, boldness and energy of expression, modernity in exuberant compositions. […]
Alcohol ink paintings The idea was borne on a lazy summer day, after a refreshing swim, on Hung’s deck, while we explored her garden and ‘going back’ to alcohol inks after a long winter ‘ban’ – we use this medium outdoors only. Nothing starts without experimentations. Then, becomes a (temporary) obsession, a drive to execute […]
Large alcohol ink paintings The August studio workshop was focused on painting ‘Art Garden’. Enveloped in the tranquility of ‘Zen garden’. Waterfall murmuring in sink with our voices, hummingbirds feeding on monarda’s blooms, critters milling around in early rush for fall preparations, stone Budas sleeping peacefully in shadows of late summer flowering… Summer rain, refreshing, […]
Mixed media acrylic painting When I was young, budding writer (published a novel when I was 19) and painter, things seemed quite complicated, requiring a lot of philosophical pondering; transcending mathematical axioms to interpersonal and societal relationships was daunting and sparked heated discussions in my, similary inclined, circles. Yet, now, from a distance of years, […]
Mixed media paintings Alter Ego runs deep in each person. We are rarely unidirectional. Rather a multitude. Whereas our previous Alter Ego session explored masks as (artistic) tool to assume different personalities, a desire to conceal or transform our identity, the true ‘alter ego’ resides within us on its own – no need for masks. […]
Mixed media triptych While exploring connections among individuals and within communities, we recognized that connecting with inner self and with our ‘habitat’ is equally important. This mixed media triptych explores our inner ‘diversity’, our natural environment and our relation with it, as well as our place in the universe – an ultimate ‘habitat’. Finding the […]
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